5.02 [--] Suspense: ALWAYS TRUST A COP
09Sep1952 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Max Ehrlich / From the story "Call From a
Killer" by Octavus Roy Cohen
starring
Anne Jackson
Mark Roberts
Synopsis:
The tale is about a killer who tries to hide out with his wartime buddy, unaware
that the buddy is
now a policeman. [RF]
*NOTE: Title also known as "Call From a Cop".

5.03 [--] Suspense: THE RETURN OF DR. BOURDETTE
16Sep1952 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Victor Wolfson / From a story by A.M.
Burrage
starring
John Baragrey
William Prince
Robert F. Simon
Gaby Rodgers
Herbert Ratner
Synopsis:
A detective searches for a killer and traces him to a wax museum.
*NOTE: Lois Wheeler was scheduled to appear but feel ill and Gaby Rodgers took
the role. [RF]

5.05 [--] Suspense: THE BEACH OF FALESA
30Sep1952 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Halsted Welles / Story by Robert Louis
Stevenson
starring
John Forsythe
Synopsis:
A trader must battle the influence of a renegade. [RF]

5.06 [--] Suspense: THE MAN IN THE MIRROR
07Oct1952 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Robert Wallsten
Based on an article by Elizabeth Coulson
starring
Constance Ford
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Synopsis:
Two men who look exactly alike, one is the actual criminal and the other the
innocent sap who gets nailed. [RF]

5.07 [--] Suspense: THE BLUE PANTHER
14Oct1952 CBS Tue
Producer Martin Manulis
Teleplay by Max Ehrlich / Based on a story by Norbert
Davis
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Settings John Ward
Music Hank Sylvern
Announcer Rex Marshall
starring
Phyllis Brooks ..... Marjorie Standish
Michael Strong ..... Detective Ben Shaley
Bruce Gordon ....... Edward Malloy
Erik Rhodes ........ Drexel Courtney
Gina Petrushka ..... Baroness
Michael Garrett .... Bannerman
Tom Avera .......... Walsh
Michael Gazzo ...... Handler
Gene Anton Jr. ..... Lenny
Synopsis:
A detective is hired to guard a valuable painting called "The Blue Panther".
During an exclusive invitation
only preview both the painting and a necklace are stolen. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
A society lady who gets mixed up with a gang of thieves. She is forced to help
steal a priceless painting
called "The Blue Panther". [RF]
*NOTE: Actress Phyllis Brooks the star on the Auto-Lite "Suspense" show tonight
will be watched by her father
George Siler manager of the local electric Auto-Lite Co. plant.

5.08 [--] Suspense: THE MAN WHO HAD SEVEN HOURS
21Oct1952 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Leo Davis
starring
Robert Sterling
Gaby Rodgers
Synopsis:
A Hollywood assistant director in a stop-over in Paris is attacked by criminals
on the Montmarte. [RF]

5.09 [--] Suspense: ALL HALLOW'S EVE[verified
at matineeclassics.com - RF]
28-Oct-1952 CBS Tue
Produced by Martin Manulis
Teleplay by Halsted Welles
Based on a story "Markheim" by Robert Louis Stevenson
Director Robert Mulligan
Announcer Rex Marshall
starringFranchot Tone .... Markheim
Romney Brent ..... Friendly Visitor
Francis Compton.. Dealer
Penny Hays ......... First Street Urchin
Douglas Jay ......... Second Street Urchin
Patricia Byrd ........ Girl
Bobby Catanio ..... Boy
Synopsis::
Based on the story "Markheim" by Robert Louis Stevenson, this is the account of
a man who murders his
pawnbroker and is then visited by the devil who urges him to kill the man's
housekeeper in order to
cover up his crime. In an attempt to atone for his utterly delinquent life, the
man draws back at the
last moment and tells the housekeeper to call the police because he has just
murdered her master.
Thwarted in his efforts to gain another soul, the devil disappears. [RF]

5.10 [--] Suspense: THE MOVING TARGET
11Nov1952 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Robert Anderson
starring
Joseph Anthony
Irja Jensen
Jamie Smith
Synopsis:
An Olympic athlete from behind the Iron Curtain sees the Olympics as his chance
for freedom. [RF]
*Note: Based on the true story from the Helsinki Olympics with actual newsreel
footage used from the games.

*NOTE: Based on a true story that happened over 40 years ago only the names have
been changed. [from opening narration]
Closing Narration: On April 12, 1911 Henry Brown the first murder was caught by
trans-atlantic wireless
was hanged by the neck until he was dead.

5.15 [--] Suspense: THE TORTURED HAND
16Dec1952 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Ben Radin / From a story by Karoly Kisfaludi
starring
Peter Lorre
Synopsis:
A 19th century nobleman is tortured with pain in his hand, the one he used to
commit murder defending
his family's honor. [RF]

*NOTE: During the telecast, Rear Adm. Homer Wallen and Lt. Commander Arthur
Godfrey gave the public their
first demonstration of a model of the Navy's new atomic submarine.

5.16 [--] Suspense: THE DEADLY LAMB
23Dec1952 CBS Tue
Teleplay by James P. Cavanagh / From an original story by W.A. Powers
starring
Patricia Breslin
Dick Haymes
Synopsis:
A woman becomes the object of affection between two brothers in this romantic
triangle story. [RF]
*NOTE: Dick Haymes sings three songs during this program.

5.18 [--] Suspense: LITTLE CAMORRA
06Jan1953 CBS Tue
Written by Edmund Morris
starring
William Prince
Mary Sinclair
Synopsis:
Convinced that she is cursed by an old family vendetta, she tries to convince
her American fiance of the threat. [RF]

5.28 [--] Suspense: THE BLACK PROPHET
17Mar1953 CBS Tue
written by Michael Dyne
starring
Boris Karloff .... Rasputin
Synopsis:
Story of the Russian mystic Rasputin who influenced the Russian Tsar who
believed him to be psychic. [RF]

5.30 [--] Suspense: DEATH IN THE CAVE
31Mar1953 CBS Tue
Written by Halsted Welles
starring
Zachary Scott
Synopsis:
The tale of two adventurers trapped by an earthquake in a vast cavern
underground. [RF]

Suspense - FOB Vienna (3/3)Producer Martin Manulis
Written by Raphael Hayes
Directed by Robert Mullgan
Settings John Ward
Music Hank Sylvern
Announcer Rex Marshall
starring
Walter Matthau .... Lawrence Stevens
Jayne Meadows ..... Helen Brady
Robert Webber ..... James Forsythe
Mike Kellin ....... Herr Wohler
Clem Fowler ....... Kremer
E.A. Krumschmidt .. Herr Ploss
Synopsis:
The story of an American businessman who has accompanied a shipment of lathes to
Austria and is trying to
kethem out of the hands of Communists. The shipment ends up in Hamburg, and he
tracks it there with the help
of a newspaper reporter. At the last minute, he is able to destroy the shipment
as the police arrive to
round up the Communists. [RF]

5.38 [--] Suspense: THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLACK BARONET
26May1953 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Michael Dyne
From a story by Arthur Conan Doyle
starring
Basil Rathbone .... Sherlock Holmes
Martyn Green ...... Dr. John H. Watson
Synopsis:
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called upon to solve the case of Colonel
Jocelyn Dalcy who found
stabbed to death while visiting at the home of Sir Reginald Lavington. [RF]
*NOTE: Rathbone was not happy with the casting of Martyn Green as his sidekick
and wanted
NigelBruce who played Watson on the radio with Rathbone.

5.39 [--] Suspense: THE QUEEN'S RING
02Jun1953 CBS Tue
Written by Michael Dyne
starring
Mildred Dunnock
Scott Forbes
Jack Livesey
Synopsis:
The story is based on an experience in the life of Elizabeth I. [RF]

5.41 [--] Suspense: SEE NO EVIL
16Jun1953 CBS Tue
Written by James P. Cavanagh
starring
John Conte
Betty Jane Watson
Hildy Parks
Alan Devitt
Hank Sylvern
Synopsis:
A night club singer helps a gang to plan a robbery believing their promise not
to harm the night
watchman, her father. [RF]

5.42 [--] Suspense: THE SIGNAL MAN
23Jun1953 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Ben Radin / Story by Charles Dickens
starring
Boris Karloff
Alan Webb
Synopsis:
A demented railroad signalman is tortured by fears that he is responsible for a
series of train wrecks. [RF]

5.43 [203] Suspense: THE FURY OF SENORITA GOMEZ
30-Jun-1953 CBS Tue
written by Ben Radin
starring
Nina Foch
Harold Gordon
Synopsis:
A highborn lady in the 19th century of Peru, plots with her stableman to murder
her uncle. [RF]

5.44 [--] Suspense: THE MASCOT
07Jul1953 CBS Tue
Written by Robert J. Shaw
starring
Margaret Hayes
Mike Wallace
Synopsis:
AN American correspondent risks his life to secretly record a candid interview
with an army deserter,
exposing his evil plan to become dictator of a Mediterranean Island. [RF]

5.45 [--] Suspense: THE DUTCH SCHULTZ STORY
14Jul1953 CBS Tue
Written by Jess Lazarus
Directed by Byron Paul
Narrated by Walter Cronkite
starring
Rod Steiger ....... Dutch Schultz
Harry Bellaver
Synopsis:
True story of the notorious gangster Dutch Schultz who became kingpin of the
underworld,
only to be knocked from his throne by blazing guns in a New Jersey tavern. [RF]

5.46 [--] Suspense: PIGEON IN THE CAGE
21Jul1953 CBS Tue
Written by Alvin Sapinsley
starring
John Howard
Jacqueline Susann
Synopsis:
A drama of frustrated lovers caught in a web of crime and deceit. [RF]

5.47 [--] Suspense: THE DANCE
28Jul1953 CBS Tue
Producer Martin Manulis
Teleplay by James P. Cavanagh
Based on a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Settings John Ward
Music Hank Sylvern
Annoucer Rex Marshall
starring
John Baragrey ..... Charles Kincaid
Katharine Bard .... Joan Hale
June Walker ....... Aunt Kate
Sally Gracie ...... Catherine Jones
William Smithers .. Joe Cable
Elizabeth York .... Marie Bannerman
G. Albert Smith ... Sheriff
Synopsis:
A woman has painful memories of the 20's and her first dance the Charleston and
Charlie the man
she loves but is engaged to another. [RF]

5.48 [--] Suspense: THE VIAL OF DEATH
04Aug1953 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Arnold Schulman
Based on a story by Bus C. Bayz
starring
Claude Dauphin
Synopsis:
A deadly vial of cholera is stolen from a doctor's medical bag. [RF]

5.51 [--] Suspense: DEATH IN THE PASSING
25Aug1953 CBS Tue
Written by James P. Cavanagh
starring
Cedric Hardwicke
Synopsis:
A tale of murder on Manila's waterfront and an island detective with one of the
most puzzling
cases of his career. [RF]

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